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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Use Case

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Describes a goal than an organization wants to achieve.

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Actors

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A person

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Precondition

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Must occur before the process can start

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Trigger

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Starts the use case

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Postcondition

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Occurs after the actor triggers the process

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Normal Flow

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Lists each step in specific order

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Confidentiality

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Prevents the unauthorized disclosure of data

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Encryption

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Scrambles data to make it unreadable

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PII

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Personally Identifiable Information

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Access Controls

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Identification, authentication, and authorization.

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Identification

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User claimed identity

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Authentication

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Users prove their identity

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Authorization

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Grant or restrict access to resources after authentication.

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14
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Steganography

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Hiding data within data

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Obfuscation

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METHOD to attempt to make something unclear or difficult.

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Integrity

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Provides assurances that data has not changed.

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17
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Hashing

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A number created by an algorithm against data to ensure integrity.

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Hashing Algorithms

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Message Digest 5 (MD5), Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA), and Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC)

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MAC (NIC)

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Media Access Control

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MAC (Mandatory)

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Mandatory Access Control

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MAC (Message)

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Message authentication code

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Digital Signature

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Provides authentication and non-repudiation

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Non-repudiation

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Verifies the user. Non-deniable.

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Availability

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Indicates that data and services are available when needed.

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Redundancy

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Adds duplication to critical systems and provide fault tolerance.

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Fault Tolorance

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Allows services to continue without interruption in the case of a fault.

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Disk redundancies

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Fault-tolerant disks, such as RAID-1, RAID-5, and RAID-10.

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Server redundancies

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Failover clusters ensure a service will continue to operate, even if a server fails.

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Load balancing

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Uses multiple servers to support a single service

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Site redundancies

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If a site can no longer function due to a disaster, such as a fire, flood, hurricane, or earthquake, the organization can move critical systems to an alternate site.

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Risk

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is the possibility or likelihood of a threat exploiting a vulnerability resulting in a loss.

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Threat

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any circumstance or event that has the potential to compromise confidentiality, integrity, or availability.

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Vulnerability

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is a weakness.

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Security Incident

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an adverse event or series of events that can negatively affect the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of an organization’s information technology (IT) systems and data.

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Risk mitigation

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Reduces the changes that a threat will exploit a vulnerability.

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Control Types

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Technical controls, Administrative controls, Phycial controls, Preventive controls, Detective controls, Corrective controls, Deterrent controls, Compensating controls.

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Administrative Controls

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use administrative or management methods.

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38
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Physical Controls

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refer to controls you can physically touch.

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Preventive Controls

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attempt to prevent an incident from occurring.

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Detective controls

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attempt to detect incidents after they have occurred.

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Corrective Controls

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attempt to reverse the impact of an incident.

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Deterrent Controls

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attempt to discourage individuals from causing an incident.

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Compensating Controls

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alternative controls used when a primary control is not feasible.

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How Security Controls Are Implemented

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Technical, Administrative, Physical.

45
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Goals of security controls

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Preventive, Detective, Corrective, Deterrent, Compensating.

46
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IDSs

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Intrusion detection system

47
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IPSs

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Intrusion prevention system

48
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IDSs and IPSs Function

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monitor a network or host for intrusions and provide ongoing protection against various threats.

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Firewall

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Restrict network traffic going in and out of a network.

50
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Least Priviledge

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that individuals or processes are granted only the privileges they need to perform their assigned tasks or functions, but no more.

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51
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Risk Assessments

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quantify and qualify risks within an organization so that the organization can focus on the serious risks.

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52
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Vulnerability Assessments

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attempts to discover current vulnerabilities or weaknesses. When necessary, an organization implements additional controls to reduce the risk from these vulnerabilities.

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Penetration Tests

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attempting to exploit vulnerabilities.

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NIST

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National Institute of Standards and Technology

55
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Hardening

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the practice of making a system or application more secure than its default configuration.

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IPS Function

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attempts to detect attacks and then modify the environment to block the attack from continuing.

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57
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TOTP

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Time-based One-Time Password

58
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Virtualiztion

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allows you to host one or more virtual systems, or virtual machines (VMs), on a single physical system.

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Hypervisor

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software that creates, runs, and manages the VMs

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Type I Hypervisor

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run directly on the system hardware.

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Type II Hypervisor

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run as software within a host operating system.

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Application Cell

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virtualization or container virtualization runs services or applications within isolated application cells (or containers).

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VDI

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Virtual Desktop Infrasctructure

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VDE

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Virtual Desktop Environment

65
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VM Escape

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an attack that allows an attacker to access the host system from within the virtual system.

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VM Sprawl

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sprawl occurs when an organization has many VMs that aren’t managed properly.

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67
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Kali Linux

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a free Linux distribution used by many security professionals for penetration testing and security auditing.

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Hyper-V

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Windows VM Support

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VMware Workstation Player

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Free VM software

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Oracle VMVirtualBox

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Oracle VM software

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Ping

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a basic command used to test connectivity for remote systems.

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ipconfig

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shows the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) configuration information for a system.

Entered by itself, the command provides basic information about the NIC, such as the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway.

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ipconfig /all

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This command shows a comprehensive listing of TCP/IP configuration information for each NIC.

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ipconfig /displaydns

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this command shows the contents of the DNS cache.

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75
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ipconfig /flushdns

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erase the contents of the DNS cache with this command.

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ifconfig

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Linux command similar to ipconfig.

77
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ifconfig eth0

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This command shows the configuration of the first Ethernet interface (NIC) on a Linux system.

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ifconfig eth0 promisc

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This command enables promiscuous mode on the first Ethernet interface.

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ifconfig eth0 allmulti

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This command enables multicast mode on the NIC.

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netstat

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allows you to view statistics for TCP/IP protocols on a system.

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ESTABLISHED

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The normal state for the data transfer phase of a connection.

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LISTEN

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Indicates the system is waiting for a connection request.

83
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CLOSE_WAIT

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This indicates the system is waiting for a connection termination request.

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TIME_WAIT

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This indicates the system is waiting for enough time to pass to be sure the remote system received a TCP-based acknowledgment of the connection.

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SYN_SENT

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This indicates the system sent a TCP SYN (synchronize) packet as the first part of the SYN, SYN-ACK (synchronize-acknowledge), ACK (acknowledge) handshake process and it is waiting for the SYN-ACK response.

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SYN_RECEIVED

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This indicates the system sent a TCP SYN-ACK packet after receiving a SYN packet as the first part of the SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK handshake process.

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87
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tracert

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command lists the routers between two systems.

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arp

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a command-line tool that is related to the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

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